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Ancient Web: Sensation Bot Went From BBC BASIC to a Year-2000 Chat Window

Sensation Bot's firsthand history traces a crude 1993 BBC Micro program through FidoNet bots and into a public web chatbot in 2000.

Ancient Web: Grin Kept FidoNet Jokes on a Hungarian Homepage

Peter 'grin' Gervai's 1998-era bilingual personal homepage preserves geek-code culture, text-browser pride, deliberately rude humor, and a small archive of jokes shared through FidoNet.